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PayPal Cancels Consortium News Account–May Seize Balance
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
1 May 2022 – PayPal has canceled CN’s account without any prior notice or due process and with virtually no explanation. The online payment system gave no warning or reason and indicated that only if “applicable” will the balance be returned.
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Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Elites’ War to Rule the World
Fritz Pointer | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
4 May 2022 – We can date the beginning of the war in Ukraine to October 2002, when the Project for the New American Century was published for the Pentagon and clearly and unambiguously stated U.S. foreign policy for the 21st century: “Full Spectrum Dominance.” That is, to dominate militarily the nations, peoples and resources of the entire world. Not “Full Spectrum” or Global Peace, Diplomacy or Cooperation, but Domination.
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Notes from Eritrea (Part 1)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
4 May 2022 – Ann Garrison continues her reporting from the Horn of Africa. She is now in Eritrea.
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Why Should Russia and the United States Be Enemies When They Have a 240-Year History of International Friendship and Support?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
April 25 marked the 77th anniversary of the “Oath of the Elbe,” when U.S. and Russian soldiers embraced in a historic meeting on the Elbe River in Torgau, Germany, to mark the final end of the Third Reich and pledge mutual understanding, empathy and peaceful relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
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Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ Is another Propaganda Tool
Ian Miles Cheong | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
3 May 2022 – The so-called proponents of freedom and democracy have given themselves the right to designate what the ‘truth’ is.
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The Global Suicide Budget
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
In 2021, the human race, in order to keep itself safe, invested $2.1 trillion in the ability to make war — to kill one another, even to end life altogether. We live counter to our deepest values in order to, as Obama put it, “upheld our highest traditions.” Or something like that. The bullets fly in all directions. Sometimes they hit the soul.
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UK Calls for a ‘Global NATO’
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
The world order created after the Second World War and the Cold War isn’t working anymore, so the West needs “a global NATO”, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss argued on 27 Apr 2022. She says a ‘global NATO’ needs to arm Taiwan, like Ukraine.
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Western Claims of Russian Mass Graves near Mariupol another Fake News Hoax
Eva K Bartlett | Resistance Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – According to Western media, now copy-paste reporting the same claims, Russian forces apparently secretly buried up to 9,000 Mariupol civilians in “mass graves” in a town just west of the city. Except, it never happened, there is no mass grave. I Know, I Went To See.
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The Corruption of Our Nation: How to Reclaim Our Power from Corrupt Global Corporatists
Robert W. Malone M.D., M.S. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
21 Apr 2022 – Inverted totalitarianism: The World Economic Forum represents global political capture by capitalism as corruption of political systems by global corporatists filtered down to our science, medicine and healthcare systems.
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(Czech-čeština) Válka na Ukrajině: Porozumění a odolávání hlubší agendy globální elity
Robert J. Burrowes | Oral.sk/Porno Politika – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
Zaměření na některé z obskurnějších aspektů hlubší agendy, která tento konflikt řídí. To odráží můj vlastní dlouhodobý zájem porozumět tomu, jak se elitní moc projevuje ve světě.
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It’s About Time
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
28 Apr 2022 – Isn’t it always? With the start of World War III by the United States “declaring” war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine, we have entered a time when the end of time has become very possible. I am speaking of nuclear annihilation.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
Ann Garrison continues her reporting from Ethiopia.
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Why War?
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
Letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, 1932
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‘Crushing Dissent’ with George Galloway, Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter and Jill Stein
Joe Lauria and Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News Live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Join us as we examine the information warfare being waged to enforce a single narrative about the war in Ukraine. It may be worse than McCarthyism, which was defeated by its own excesses. Our guests have been targets of censorship and smears in this coordinated assault on freedom of expression.
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Humanity: Evolving in Spite of Itself
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
As wars rage, cruelty shatters lives across the planet, nuclear Armageddon remains a viable option for all of us — I think that the human race is evolving in spite of itself — evolving beyond war, empire, dominance and conquest, and toward an uncertain future. Most of us already know this, but at a level so deep, so vague, it feels like mere “hope.”
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#FreeAssange Petition: Sign to Urge UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to Reject Julian Assange’s Extradition to the US
Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
If extradited to the USA, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison on 18 charges related to WikiLeaks’ publication in 2010 of military and diplomatic documents exposing war crimes and human rights violations. Assange has been targeted for this important contribution to journalism.
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The New Capitalist Gold Rush
William Hartung and Julia Gledhill | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – How Pentagon Contractors Are Cashing in on the Ukraine Crisis
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Michigan Bomb Plot: FBI Scheme to Create False ‘Domestic Terror’ Cabal Exposed in Court
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – Jury finds FBI agents fabricated a kidnapping threat against Michigan governor so they could be heroes by foiling a “crime” of their own creation. FBI director’s use of entrapment is part of a strategy designed to sow public fear and render support for draconian anti-terrorist legislation.
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Jingoistic Journalism Is No Friend of Ukraine
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Propaganda for a bigger and longer Ukraine war is flooding the media on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal in attempts to manipulate public opinion.
→ read full articleEinstein and Freud’s ‘Why War?’ Revisited: Why Anti-War Efforts Go Nowhere
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
In 1932, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein exchanged letters, later published under the title ‘Why War?’ However, whatever insight these two giants of an earlier era brought to our understanding of war, the reality is that a great deal has been learned since they corresponded.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – “The defense industry mobilized a small army of at least 718 lobbyists and doled out more than $67 million dollars pressuring Congress for increased weapons spending generally.”
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – I’m writing from Ethiopia, where the war that began in November 2020 continues, with the US backing their former puppet, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation, which ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist from 1991 to 2018, when they were finally overthrown by a popular uprising.
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Having a Laugh…
CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
… on us.
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Biden Administration Budgets Record $27.6 Billion for Militarization of Outer-Space
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – As homeless rates skyrocket and public education flounders, the Biden administration has proposed a record $27.6 billion budget for the militarization of outer space in 2023—a 25% increase from the 2022 budget. New cold war provides continued backdrop for misallocation of public resources into weaponry right out of science fiction films.
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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr | Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 1967 – I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
→ read full article(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: capire l’agenda sottostante dell’élite globale e resisterle
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Aprile 2022 – In un comunicato televisivo del 24 febbraio 2022, il presidente russo Vladimir Putin ha annunciato la sua decisione di ordinare alle forze militari russe di invadere l’Ucraina in quella che ha denominato una ‘operazione militare speciale’ per difendere le neo – autoproclamate repubbliche di di Donetsk e Luhansk e ‘smilitarizzare e […]
→ read full articleThe US Bubble of Pretend
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022 – The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most North Americans.
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Was Alleged Russian Army Massacre of Civilians at Bucha Actually a False Flag Event Staged by Ukrainian Nazis?
Evan Reif | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – Why was Nazi Butcher Botsun at Bucha? This story raises an important challenge to the official storyline of the Bucha massacre promoted in the mainstream media.
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MLK: “Beyond Vietnam” Speech
Martin Luther King, Jr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
April 4, 1967 – One year before his death, Dr. King gave a speech criticizing the involvement of the U.S. in Vietnam. Great consequences would follow. His criticism made him very unpopular towards the end of his life.
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Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.
→ read full articleSave the Planet, Behead the Military Budget
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – Why, why, why, as our ecosystem collapses, as millions flee the horrors of war and poverty, as the pandemic continues, as WWIII and a nuclear Armageddon rears its evil head, does ever-expanding, global militarism remain our primary national purpose? This question stabs me as President Whoever announces his proposed military budget, as Congress increases it, as the media shrugs.
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Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This Ukrainian War
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue.
→ read full articleThe War in Ukraine: Understanding and Resisting the Global Elite’s Deeper Agenda
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Focusing on some of the more obscure aspects of the deeper agenda that is driving this conflict. This reflects my own long-standing interest in understanding how elite power manifests in the world.
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Washington Is Driving the World to Nuclear War
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Washington dumped three more provocations simultaneously on the Kremlin. The signal it consistently sends is aggression. Why has no government and no presstitute in the West pointed this out? Why provoke a country concerned with its security with more security concerns unless you are trying to widen the war?
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Yemen: The Largest Humanitarian Crisis That No One Discusses
Martin Armstrong | Armstrong Economics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The media rarely reports on Yemen and most journalists likely would not be able to recognize Yemen’s flag. The public does not discuss or shed tears for the people of Yemen who live in unfathomable conditions because they are not a piece of the larger agenda and no one can profit off of their suffering at this time.
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U.S. Lied about Funding “Dangerous Pathogen” Research in Secret Ukrainian Biolabs, Newly Leaked Documents Reveal
Dilyana Gaytandzhieva | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – Newly Leaked Documents Reveal Pentagon Contractors Worked Under $80 Million Program Funded by Defense Department but Kept Hidden from Public
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NATO Is Arming and Training Nazis in Ukraine, as US Floods Russia’s Neighbor with Weapons
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
11 Mar 2022 – NATO is sending weapons and trainers to help neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s white-supremacist Azov movement fight Russia. This follows numerous reports of Western government support for Ukrainian far-right extremists.
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A Commune Called ‘Che’: A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes
Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – Just as the independence struggle had different resonances in the Andes, so too does Venezuela’s project of communal socialism. The region is home to one of the most successful communes in the country and has a solid productive basis (a chocolate factory and coffee cooperative). However, the Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others.
→ read full articleTranscending the Certainties of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Can we stare into hell and refuse to see . . . an enemy?
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Preparing for a Dictator Down Under?
Brian Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – Australia has a stable, prosperous democracy. There are no looming external threats and no violent opposition movements. Yet, in the past two decades Australian governments have passed numerous laws giving police and security agencies ever more powers for surveillance and repression.
→ read full articleOn the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – To grasp this possibility within the context of Ukraine, we need to put aside all talk of morality, rights, international law, and think in terms of great power politics. When a great power feels its existence is threatened, might makes right. You simply can’t understand world politics without thinking at this level. It is a means of clarifying the causes of wars.
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An Interview with Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann, a Short-listed Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Robert Kowalczyk: Not many Germans recently have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Please explain the essence of your thoughts and why they are crucial at this moment in our world’s history.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – I had a breakthrough yesterday — and I don’t mean metaphorically. Wars rage, countless humans suffer, the rich get richer, life goes on. I still have my morning coffee. But not yesterday.
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A Guide for Peace in Ukraine: A Humanist and Nonviolent Proposal from Portugal
Redação Portugal | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – The Centre for Humanist Studies “Exemplary Actions”, the Portuguese branch of the World Centre for Humanist Studies, an organism of the Humanist Movement, is disseminating a non-violent proposal for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, inviting citizens and non-governmental organisations who identify with it to sign it and send it.
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Ukrainian Refugees to Portugal Will Have Over 11,500 Jobs to Choose from
Natasha Donn | Portugal Resident - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – As the government announced earlier this week, bureaucratic details like temporary residence authorisation/social security, fiscal and SNS State health Service numbers, will all be fast-tracked to make this transition for new arrivals as simple as possible.
→ read full articleThe Frailty of Peace in the Midst of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Prior to any analysis of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, prior to the casting of blame and outrage — at Putin’s hubris, at NATO’s pernicious eastward expansion over the last three decades — there’s this:
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The Curse of NATO
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The war over Ukraine is an example of the curse of NATO. Russia reacted to the possibility of Ukraine being in NATO. This is not irrational in that US/NATO has over 750 military bases around the world, and many of these bases appear to be there to militarily encircle Russia (and China).
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What You Should ‘Really’ Know about Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
As tensions began to rise over Ukraine, US media produced articles attempting to explain the situation: “Ukraine Explained” (New York Times, 12/8/21) and “What You Need to Know About Tensions Between Ukraine and Russia” (Washington Post, 11/26/21). But to truly understand this crisis, you would need to know much more than what these articles offered.
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Leak Exposes Ericsson’s Secret Dealings with ISIS amid Iraq Corruption Spree
Sydney P. Freedberg, Maggie Michael and Amir Musawy | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – The embattled Swedish telecom giant concealed years of bribery and fraud in the war-torn nation and grappled with undisclosed corruption allegations in more than a dozen other countries.
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US, UK, France Promised USSR Not to Expand NATO East of Germany, Newly Discovered Document Proves
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Feb 2022 – A newly discovered document provides more evidence that Western governments broke their promise not to expand NATO eastward after German reunification. Notes from a 1991 meeting prove that the US, UK, France, and Germany assured the Soviet Union that NATO would not expand east.
→ read full articleCreating Peace Means Changing the World
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
23 Feb 2022 – Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right? Regarding Ukraine: Both sides in the matter are flawed, and both sides need to listen.
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Switzerland at Risk of EU Blacklist after Credit Suisse Leak
Kalyeena Makortoff and David Pegg | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
– 21 Feb 2022 –
* Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians.
* What is the Suisse secrets leak and why are we publishing it?
Multiple Articles on Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations
Defense News | Military Space Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Thought-provoking News on War and Destruction
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Gay rights, women’s rights — in reality, these are a nuisance to many U.S. conservatives, but purporting to protect these rights on the other side of the world is a great excuse to play war.
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Dissonance Searching for Resonance: A Time to Remember the Hibakusha, or Are We Too Late?
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The world is now bracing itself for a possible Russian invasion of the Ukraine. The U.S. is pushing back, with President Biden talking about “a World War.” Hopefully, it’s not too late to remember the Hibakusha (Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings). How does one limit such an exchange once the first button is pressed?
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Seventy-Seven Years Ago, U.S. and Russia Signed Historic Agreement at Yalta
Jeremy Kuzmarov and Jacques Pauwels | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – With tensions between the U.S. and Russia at historic levels and threat of a hot war breaking out in Ukraine, we would do well to remember FDR’s visionary leadership and pursuit of diplomacy.
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Oliver Stone: American Exceptionalism Is on Deadly Display in Ukraine
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The creator of the Showtime documentary series “The Putin Diaries” speaks to Robert Scheer about the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
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Sleepwalking into Hell: The Global Elite’s Technological Coup d’état Against Humanity
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Opposed to vaccine mandates, QR codes and other restrictions on our rights and freedom?
Refusing to wear a mask, have the vaccine and stay locked-down when ordered?
Attended a number of demonstrations in your country?
Involved in or supporting the truckers convoys?
Argentina Turns to Russia and Joins China’s Belt and Road
Ben Norton | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Seeking alternatives to US hegemony, President Alberto Fernández traveled to Russia and China, forming an alliance with the Eurasian powers, joining the Belt and Road Initiative. Argentina is trapped in $44 billion of IMF odious debt taken on by corrupt right-wing regimes.
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BREAKING: Joint Russia-China Statement Articulates United Opposition to Western Alliance
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – Today’s joint statement is a historic articulation of the major shift underway from the unipolar world that has existed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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The Moral, Military and Financial Cost of Guantanamo Bay, 20 Years Later
Stefano Kotsonis and Meghna Chakrabarti | WBUR/On Point - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – 20 years ago, the first detainees in the U.S. War on Terror arrived at Guantanamo Bay. Many detainees were innocent, and tortured. Presidents since then have promised to close Guantanamo, and failed. They picked up human beings and moved them halfway around the globe without an idea of how to undo this. They’re stuck with this mission. So, what’s next?
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Stripping Away the Bulls**t: U.S. and Russian Threats over Ukraine—What They’re about and Who’s the Aggressor
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
25 Jan 2022 – Threats and counter-threats flying between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine have caused a flurry of fear and confusion that escalates and expands daily. Is the world on the brink of war? What is it about, who is the aggressor and who is to blame?
→ read full articleNostalgic for the Future
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – Nostalgia is always about time and space. In that sense, it is equivalent to all human experience that also takes place within these dimensions. And when technology has radically disrupted our human sense of limits in their regard, it becomes harder and harder to feel at home, to dwell enough to grasp what is happening in the world.
→ read full articleUkraine and the Nuclear Paradox
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – There is a paradox here the size of the whole planet. The essential point here, as far as I can tell, is that the signatories are confessing that, yes, we possess the weapons that could destroy all life, and yes, we think using them would be wrong, but we have no idea how to make them go away and so we’ll just use them to scare each other, a.k.a., serve defensive purposes.
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The News Is Not That Israel Has Apartheid, but That Amnesty Dares Say So
Ari Paul | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture? AP (1/31/22) disclosed that its government called on Amnesty International not to release a report (2/1/22) that defines that nation’s legal structure as a form of apartheid. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the report endorses “lies shared by terrorist organizations.”
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Whose Body Is It?
Ron Hauge | The Nation OppArt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Choice on the Line Again
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The USA Is in Danger of Having More Rivals Than It Can Handle
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 – The US wants a world in which everyone – Russia, China and Iran included – bows down to it. But the days of a single superpower are gone. As the Ukraine crisis rolls on, there is a growing fear among Western commentators and foreign policy elites that a “China-Russia” axis is consolidating.
→ read full articleWhat You Should Really Know about Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Jan 2022 – These “explainer” pieces are emblematic of Ukraine coverage in the rest of corporate media, which almost universally gave a pro-Western view of US/Russia relations and the history behind them. Media echoed the point of view of those who believe the US should have an active role in Ukrainian politics and enforce its perspective through military threats.
→ read full articleThe Global Elite’s ‘Kill and Control’ Agenda: Destroying Our Food Security
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
31 Jan 2022 – Governments around the world continue to impose an expanding sequence of measures to curtail rights and freedoms ostensibly to tackle a ‘virus’. In response, public demonstrations against these government measures are also ongoing and expanding with truck convoys the latest manifestation of this form of protest.
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. With JFK Revisited, Oliver Stone has truly honored this fallen hero.
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‘The World’s Most Evil Company’ May Lose a Few Court Fights—but Will Keep on Poisoning and Killing Millions of People with Its Carcinogenic Pesticide ‘Roundup’
Mitchel Cohen | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – Monsanto (now part of Bayer AB) had to pay $78 million in 2018 and $10 billion more in 2020 to settle 100,000 cancer lawsuits. But that won’t stop a company whose 2021 revenues will top $49.991 billion…which is why Roundup is still being profitably sprayed in 160 countries around the world.
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This One-Two Punch from China and Russia Marks the End of U.S. Adventurism
Bradley Blankenship | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Syria’s inclusion in the Belt and Road Initiative is the final act in a long saga against American imperialism that shows how China and Russia can effectively counter U.S. intervention in the future.
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A Citizen of the World (Still) Speaks
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – I decided to honor Martin Luther King Day this year by reading — and trying to absorb, more fully than ever before — the entirety (nearly 7,000 words) of the iconic speech he gave at Riverside Church a year to the day before his assassination.
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The Day CNN’s Jake Tapper Sold His Soul to Pharma
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – There’s a reason CNN’s Jake Tapper is intent on branding me a “menace” and “a liar,” and why he refuses to debate me on the merits of facts and scientific evidence. Here’s the back story.
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‘Jaw-Dropping’ Targeting: How Pegasus Was Used against Critical Journalists in El Salvador
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – A new report by Citizen Lab and Access Now, shared with Forbidden Stories, shows how investigative journalists at El Faro and GatoEncerrado, two independent media outlets in El Salvador, were repeatedly and aggressively targeted with Pegasus spyware.
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Selected Articles on the Kazakhstan Uprisings
CovertAction Magazine and openDemocracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
9 Jan 2022 – Anger, Injustice and Politics Brought People to the Streets in Kazakhstan
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Communing with Albert Camus in 2022
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself” way, or in any deep psychoanalytical sense, but very simply. We have our own thoughts and feelings that come and go like breaths, most of which never get expressed in words.
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Syrian Extremists Had Free Access to Western Media, Says Award Winning Syrian Photographer
Patrik Paulov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Issa Touma, photographer from Aleppo, has portrayed the Syrian people before, during and after the war. But it was only when he moved to Sweden that he understood why the Western world’s image of Syria was so distorted.
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Why Is Joe Biden Discreetly Looking the Other Way as His AFRICOM Commander Commits War Crimes for Which He Would Have Been Hanged at Nuremberg?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Townsend Oversaw Army Unit in Syria That Committed Myriad Atrocities and Helped Cover Up Crimes – He claims that the U.S. was “never a colonizing power in Africa,” that AFRCOM’s motto is “African solutions, for African problems,” and that countries “drowning in poverty” frequently “ask for U.S. help.” These words mask the imperial underpinnings of U.S. foreign policy.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
12 Jan 2022 – “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” The words are those of Albert Einstein. He adds, pointing out a truth: “The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war.”
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Dissonance Searching for Resonance: An Open Letter to TRANSCEND Members and Friends
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
Needless to say, if you are a frequent writer, contributor, or visitor to the TRANSCEND Media Service website, you are aware of the unique significance this Weekly Digest offers both as a beacon and archive. Thirteen years of thought on major global issues from a wide variety of peace and conflict transformation perspectives. You also must be aware of the financial difficulties that TMS now continues to face.
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Slavoj Zizek: It’s Naive to Think Bitcoin & NFT Give Us Freedom
Slavoj Žižek | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
8 Jan 2022 – In a world where digital control and manipulation have become a norm, many believe that cryptocurrency and Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, enable freedom. But this is not exactly true.
→ read full articleThe Myth of the Good War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – The myth of the good war may well be the most destructive certainty misleading the crumbling empire known as “USA! USA!” Here’s the problem, though. Building global and environmental peace — listening to and understanding one another — is a slow, extraordinarily complex process. It’s so much easier to keep waging war against the bad guy of the moment, who will never go away.
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441,449 Low Earth Orbit Satellites – Operating, Approved and Proposed
Arthur Firstenberg | International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
5 Jan 2022 – While the attention of a terrified world has been riveted on a virus, the assault on the heavens has reached astronomical proportions. During the past two years, a flood of new projects has brought the number of operating, approved, and proposed satellites to at least 441,449. The satellite projects include the ones listed below.
→ read full articleDissonance Searching for Resonance: An Open Letter to TRANSCEND Members and Friends
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 – Needless to say, if you are a frequent writer, contributor, or visitor to the TRANSCEND Media Service website, you are aware of the unique significance this Weekly Digest offers both as a beacon and archive. Thirteen years of thought on major global issues from a wide variety of peace and conflict transformation perspectives. You also must be aware of the financial difficulties that TMS now continues to face.
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Warnings from the Far North
Robert Hunziker | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – It’s never been more urgent and timely for the world to change its ways and abandon the current economic maelstrom that haunts all life on the planet. The pros and cons of capitalism’s experiment with neoliberal tendencies that enrich the few and bury the many should be debated in the context of strained resources throughout the biosphere, including all life forms.
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Musings on Olympia by Emanuel Garcia
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – If you are a lucky reader, you chance upon a book that makes your hair stand on end in wonder and sends a shiver down your spine. This book does that, for it is deft, digressive, and capricious in ways that leave you wondering what whim set the author’s mind so ablaze to dare to set this story to paper.
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Big Power Rivalries: The Thugs of Myanmar
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
21 Dec 2021 – ASEAN leaders should explore a joint strategy with China, India and the US. By working together on a conflict that does not directly affect the three powers’ strategic interests, ongoing high tensions between China and US could cool down, and pave the way for additional small building blocks of cooperation and partnership.
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Sex Crimes of the CIA—Unreported, Unrepented, and Unpunished
John Kiriakou | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – The CIA rivals the Vatican in covering up sex crimes against children and then protecting the members of its organization who commit them.
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US Still Doesn’t Know How and Where It Will Store Its Growing Pile of Nuclear Waste
Charles Pekow | Earth Island Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
23 Dec 2021 – Senate Armed Services Committee report: “As the USA continues to modernize its nuclear weapons, waste will be generated. It is not clear whether there are sufficient facilities to address the waste or if such facilities are in current plans and budgets.” The estimated cost of handling the degrading radioactive material is rising steadily — $512 billion at last count.
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Your $1.7 Billion of Gold Is Now Ours, UK Tells Starving Venezuelans
Belen Fernandez | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
26 Dec 2021 – In its prolonged freezing of Venezuelan assets, the UK continues to withhold 31 tons of its gold stored at the Bank of England, with a new Supreme Court ruling supporting the seizure.
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Learning Something New about [Nobel Peace Laureate] Desmond Tutu
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
28 Dec 2021 – You are unlikely to learn about it in the media tributes to Archbishop Rev. Desmond Tutu who died on 26 Dec at 90 (1931-2021). But Tutu, like the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was morally and spiritually a true world citizen belonging to a large list of VIP’s who supported the drafting of a new world constitution – what is now known as the Earth Constitution.
→ read full articleDo We Dare Stop Being Afraid of Ourselves?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
22 Dec 2021 – We’re stuck, right now, in the myth of collective suicide, more generally known as the myth of the conquest of good over evil. And since history is told by the winners of humanity’s wars, those currently in power are always — always! — the good guys. David Suzuki puts it this way: “As dictators have shown throughout history, collective narratives are often successful when they have a bad guy, someone or something that is ‘other.’”
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Prof. Werner Brilliantly Explains How the Banking System and Financial Sector Really Work
RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
Power, Privilege, Riches, Control…
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Israel Killed Up to 192 Palestinian Civilians in May 2021 Attacks on Gaza
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – More than 70 percent of the Israeli attacks that killed civilians in Gaza had no corresponding reports of militants hit alongside them. “I still don’t know why they bombed my house and killed my wife and children and my sister and her children.”
→ read full articlePoisoning Ourselves with War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Dec 2021 – War spews hell in all directions. Just ask the guys at Talon Anvil, a secret U.S. “strike cell” recently exposed by the New York Times as a unit with a reputation for ignoring the rules of engagement and killing lots and lots of civilians with drone strikes as it plays war with ISIS.
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The NYT Reports US Forces ‘Killed Dozens in Syria’–The Reality Is Far Worse
Eva Bartlett | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Dec 2021 – Two recent reports by the New York Times highlight some of the US’ manifold crimes in Syria, murdering untold numbers of Syrian civilians over the years, under the pretext of fighting the Islamic State.
→ read full articleThe Origin of Violence
Henna Maria Vermeulen interviews Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. | Odysee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
29 Nov 2021 – Where violence comes from and how we can best reclaim our freedom in this time of ever increasing oppression and surveillance. I speak with a man who has dedicated 14 years of his life in seclusion to explore in depth why human beings kill each other. Robert is an author and world renowned scholar and teacher of nonviolent action strategy, especially the Gandhian approach.
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Red Current, Pink Tide: A Visit to El Maizal Commune in Venezuela
Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
1 Dec 2021 – Chris Gilbert on how Venezuela’s El Maizal Commune’s flag-waving communards are among the reddest elements in the so-called Pink Tide.
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Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.’s Heroic Resistance to the CIA’s Continuing Covid Coup D’état
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – With his extraordinary new book, RFK, Jr. has made it very clear that he will not allow Orwell’s 1984 totalitarian boot to stamp on his face. His is a very rare moral courage, and he is asking us to join him, before it is too late and we enter into a new dark age.
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